Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jews are the world's biggest consumers of onions and there are more Jews in New York City than anywhere else in the world. Therefore Manhattan is the world's onion capital. There in a slick red and white office with a deep onion aroma, at 40 Harrison St., works sleek, well-fed Benjamin Balish, 41, who bears the proud title of U. S. "Onion King." Last week Ben Balish, after years of distinguished partnerships, completed arrangements for going into business solely for himself...
...Room for three days there was an exhibition of 300 pieces of art work and craftsmanship by Waldorf employes, and on the third night the grand ballroom swirled until 2 a. m. with 1,600 bellboys, maids, clerks, stenographers, waiters and pressagents. making merry to the strains of two slick orchestras under President Boomer's genial...
...This here's Slick Jones, mah drummer," explained Fats, pointing toward a wavy - haired youth. "We calls him Slick because if you dean watch out, he'll sneak off with yo' woman. You tested indignantly, but Fats went on to know, Slick as in slimy." Slick prosay that his real name is Wilmore. A shriek of laughter came from the five saxophonists. Unperturbed, Slick said that cold chills came over him when he heard Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Asked if he didn't lose weight after his torrid drum solos several times a day, Slick said no, he seemed...
...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...
...stage set at the base of the floodlighted Washington Monument, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week addressed 65,000 listeners massed on the slick green lawns of Washington's Sylvan Theatre. Occasion of the speech was the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the U. S. Constitution by 38 delegates in Philadelphia. Having made the Constitution the most controversial U. S. political subject of the year, the President took the opportunity to define his views on it, emphasize the familiar theme that in the past four years the Supreme Court has obstructed the will of the U. S. electorate...